42 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SHIKAR 



down a very steep though grassy place. He said 

 that he was there for three or four hours before 

 any one found him. He hurt his leg badly, but in a 

 few days he was all right again and as cheery as 

 ever. 



When I first went shooting in India, I used aD.B. 

 360 Express rifle, but this was said to be not heavy 

 enough for my purpose, so I got rid of it and bought 

 a D.B. '500 Express, black-powder rifle, and have 

 done nearly all my shooting ever since with that. 

 I am so used to it, though it is old-fashioned now, 

 that I never want to change it, and it is light, only 

 weighing a fraction over eight pounds I used this 

 rifle first in Chamba. 



